What can I do with rooting?
What can I do with rooting?
I have a archos 32 and my cousin is telling me to root my archos but if I do what can I do with the rooted archos 32 ??
Re: What can I do with rooting?
Maybe you should ask your cousin why he wants you to root it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=978492
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=978492
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Re: What can I do with rooting?
he told me that its better and i can do more stuff to it but i wanna know what is that you can do with it ? can you put roms get the free app with out paying .things like that
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MarcusMarcus
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Re: What can I do with rooting?
Read through the link that frank posted. It is a very informative one.
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Re: What can I do with rooting?
If you don't know why you want root, then you don't want it. 
Seriously, I don't mean to offend you, or talk down to you, but if you aren't aware of the dangers of rooting your device, I wouldn't suggest doing it.
Rooting isn't for everyone, I know plenty of people with Android devices that don't want to root because they don't actually need anything offered by root, and they'd rather not do it.
Seriously, I don't mean to offend you, or talk down to you, but if you aren't aware of the dangers of rooting your device, I wouldn't suggest doing it.
Rooting isn't for everyone, I know plenty of people with Android devices that don't want to root because they don't actually need anything offered by root, and they'd rather not do it.
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andrew.barr
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Re: What can I do with rooting?
I can imagine your cousin is probably the sort of person who has to reinstall Windows every six months and thinks this is just a thing that people do.
In other words, no matter how careful you are, chances are you will mess things up. Even if you "know what you are doing", chances are, you will mess things up. Not all in one big disaster but over time, little changes here, little changes there- you will end up with a far less robust system. These devices are not designed for the user to have root, so when they design and test the software, they don't assume the user has root access. So when you break that assumption, things can start to go wrong.
Even people who are computer geniuses, who have done this stuff for years and years, generally understand and accept the "principle of least privilege". That is, you have something you need or want to do with your computer (or tablet). The principle of least privilege says that you should only have the abilities required to carry out that task, and no more.
In 99.9999% of cases, those abilities do not include root privileges.
In other words, no matter how careful you are, chances are you will mess things up. Even if you "know what you are doing", chances are, you will mess things up. Not all in one big disaster but over time, little changes here, little changes there- you will end up with a far less robust system. These devices are not designed for the user to have root, so when they design and test the software, they don't assume the user has root access. So when you break that assumption, things can start to go wrong.
Even people who are computer geniuses, who have done this stuff for years and years, generally understand and accept the "principle of least privilege". That is, you have something you need or want to do with your computer (or tablet). The principle of least privilege says that you should only have the abilities required to carry out that task, and no more.
In 99.9999% of cases, those abilities do not include root privileges.